Huajian Gao FRS (Chinese: 高华健; pinyin: Gāo Huájiàn, born December 7, 1963) is a Chinese-American mechanician who is widely known for his contributions to the field of solid mechanics, particularly on the micro- and nanomechanics of thin films, hierarchically structured materials, and cell-nanomaterial interactions. He is a Distinguished University Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Walter H. Annenberg Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Brown University. He is the editor-in-chief of Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
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| Born | December 7, 1963 |
| Citizenship | U.S. |
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| Known for | Micro- and nanomechanics of thin films, hierarchically structured materials, and cell-nanomaterials interactions. |
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| Fields | Solid Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science |
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Gao was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2012 for contributions to micromechanics of thin films and hierarchically structured materials. In 2021 he received the Timoshenko Medal for "pioneering contributions to nanomechanics of engineering and biological systems."[2]
Education and career
editHuajian Gao was born in Chengdu, Sichuan on December 7, 1963.[3]
He received his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Xi'an Jiaotong University of China in 1982, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering Science from Harvard University in 1984 and 1988, respectively. He taught at Stanford University between 1988 and 2002, where he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1994 and to full Professor in 2000. He joined the Max Planck Society in 2001 as a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2006 he moved to Brown University as the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering. In 2019, he joined Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University as 2019 Distinguished University Professors,[4] also jointly affiliated as scientific director of Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore.[5] Gao is the editor of the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.[6] In January of 2024 it was announced that Huajian Gao would be joining Tsinghua University in a full time chair professor position.[7]
Research
editGao has a background in applied mechanics and engineering science. His research interests span over Solid Mechanics, Nanomechanics and Biomechanics. He works on mechanics of thin films and hierarchically structured materials, mechanics of biological and bio-inspired materials, mechanics of nanostructured and nanotwinned materials, mechanics of cell adhesion, mechanics of cell-nanomaterials interactions, mechanics of energy storage systems, and mechanics of metallic glasses.
Awards
editGao received academic honors including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995 and the Humboldt Prize from Germany and Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics from the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) in 2012.[8] He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012, to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (as a foreign academician) in 2015,[9] the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2017,[10] the National Academy of Sciences in 2018 and American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
In 2021 he received the Timoshenko Medal for "pioneering contributions to nanomechanics of engineering and biological systems."[2]
In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society.[11]
References
edit- ^ "The Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics - Professor Huajian Gao | Elsevier". Archived from the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
- ^ a b "The prestigious 2021 Timoshenko Medal is awarded to Distinguished University Professor Gao Huajian by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)". School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
- ^ 高华健（Huajian Gao）. casad.ac.cn (in Chinese). 2015.
- ^ "Faculty Appointed to Named Professorships". www.ntu.edu.sg. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
- ^ "IHPC". 18. Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC). Retrieved 2021-03-20.
- ^ "Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids Editorial Board". Journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ^ "Prize-winning US physicist Gao Huajian returns to China after decades overseas". 17 January 2024.
- ^ "The Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics - Professor Huajian Gao | Elsevier". Archived from the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
- ^ "关于公布2015年中国科学院院士增选当选院士名单的公告". Cas.cn. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ^ "Huajian Gao". German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ^ "Huajian Gao". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
External links
edit- Huajian Gao's group homepage
- Huajian Gao publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Full CV at Brown University.